Arts Thread

Being human today is an evolving concept. As we transit into the digital age, we find ourselves at an intersection where our human qualities, technology, and our social fabric, converge and intertwine. This convergence creates a liminal space, a sort of in-betweenness that drives us through a technological medium, re-shaping how we experience ourselves and interact with the world. But, how exactly is our human experience being translated? What does it mean to be a human in transition -or disruption-? "My iPhone is my mother" is an autoetnographic research that disentangles and reveals our intricate relationship with technology by exploring the complex transit of a human relationship. A personal story that, through a series of experiments, reveals how the body (with its new materials), language (with its new interferences) and the social fabric (with its affections), undergo transformation in order to adapt to the digital screen. By bring to light the politics of our bodies, the loss of certain languages, the role of interference, and the complex emotions that arise as our devices become objects of affect, the final output explores the space for human agency within the realm of these mediums, which can distort, obscure, and fragment our understanding of what it truly means to be human.